Will you set up as new phone or restore from back-up for the iPhone 5?

[The Game 161]

Just wondered what everybody will be doing

 

[BlueGummiBear]

Just wondered what everybody will be doing

I will be restoring from a backup so that I don't lose all my photos, videos, app data, etc.

 

[Blorzoga]

Hmmm, let me think, do I want to lose all the information I've accumulated over the past 2+ years or do I want to keep it? Lemme think about that one.

 

[sou1 so1di3r]

..........duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[BlueGummiBear]

BTW - This post is about 5 posts down from yours... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1442681/

 

[The Game 161]

BTW - This post is about 5 posts down from yours... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1442681/

Sorry must of missed it

Feel free to delete this one mods

 

[applefanDrew]

Just wondered what everybody will be doing

set up as new in order to avoid battery problems. Nearly all of my data is in the cloud anyways so those apps will put it back down.

 

[96whitels]

setting up as new. nice and clean

 

[pooleman]

I'm setting up as new.

 

[zorinlynx]

Surprised there's no option for it... Setting up from an iTunes backup! iCloud will probably take waaaaaaaaaaayyy too long.

 

[zbarvian]

Set up as new. But I'm not superstitious though!

 

[iParis]

I'm not sure! I kind of want to do a mix of sorts.

I've been restoring all my iOS devices from backup for every single iOS update and device I've had. Since my 2nd gen iPod touch from 2.2.1 to 3.0 to my iPhone 4 on iOS 6. So basically my backup is about four years old! This time around I think I want to setup my iPhone 5 as a new device. There's just so much stuff on it and old jailbreak data. I've probably jailbroken a good four times at least and I'm sure there's old plist files and maybe even more beyond that. Hell, under location services there's even a weird option without an icon that says "AssistantServices.fra..."

ANYWAY, to the point of this, is there anyway I could do a partial backup of sorts? I want to be able to keep all my text messages, photos in camera roll, and contacts. I heard that Photo Stream will help me with my pictures problem? But won't the pictures be in a folder titled "Photo Stream" and be deleted from my iPhone 5 once they're deleted from my iPhone 4 (in this case once my iPhone is restored and sold)? And onto the contacts, are they all stored in iCloud so if I setup as new I'd pull them all once I signed into my iCloud account?

Please give your advice or any first hand experience or ideas. I don't even have anything to go on for the texts. Dx

 

[Mos Jeff]

I have a couple questions that I really hope someone can help me with and I apologize if they've been asked before. First, I've read that if I setup as new, I can then login to iCloud on my new phone and sync my contacts. I just want to be sure that this method works as I don't want to risk losing my contacts. Also, as far as redownlading apps. Do I need to redownload each app individually or can I sync with the current apps I have in my iTunes library? I'm not sure how this works, or of those apps in my library will even still be there once I setup as new. I appreciate any help. Thanks.